Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali

    Pauline Carry, an assistant professor of economics and international affairs, is a labor economist and a macroeconomist. Her research focuses on how employment contracts are formed and terminated, and the effects of labor-market institutions aimed at regulating those contracts. Carry has studied the impact of introducing a legal minimum working time of 24 hours per week in France, where she grew up.

  • 1 month ago | spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali

    Every semester, Princeton students interested in public-policy careers go to Washington, D.C., to explore career opportunities. When planning for the spring trip began last year, a visit to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was high on the list. Everything changed in January, when the agency’s operations halted.

  • 1 month ago | spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali

    In early January, 20 Princeton undergraduates were watching events unfold from across the world. In a weeklong visit to Taiwan and Singapore, they had the opportunity to ask high-level officials – including current and former heads of state – international journalists, and more than 100 Princeton alumni their thoughts on how changing politics in the United States could reshape the Asian Pacific.

  • 1 month ago | spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali

    If you run into Simon Jäger on the towpath with his Vizsla, you may not know that he is a globally recognized economist whose work on labor markets and inequality is helping reshape our understanding of modern work. He may strike you as someone deeply interested in communicating with his canine, perhaps a dog whisperer. But that’s another life. In this one, Jäger studies competition in the labor market and the institutional and psychological factors that impact it.

  • 1 month ago | spia.princeton.edu | Ambreen Ali

    Mar 03 2025 By Ambreen Ali Source Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.